Reductionism is not the right viewpoint for everything, and it certainly won't explain the relationship between the brain and the mind. This is because of a feature known as emergence. When you put together large numbers of pieces and parts, the whole can become something greater than the sum.

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.

Nothing is inherently tasty or repulsive - it depends on your needs. Deliciousness is simply an index of usefulness.

It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

Some men may be genetically inclined to have and hold a single partner, while some may not. In the near future, young women who stay current with the scientific literature may demand genetic tests of their boyfriends to assess how likely they are to make faithful husbands.